I don’t remember it that way.

Last year, I went all crazy and set this goal to ready 50 books in a year. While that didn’t happen, I did successfully read about 26 books.

This year, I decided to just see if I could read more than 26, but to also use a list to help guide my reading. I’m concentrating on the BBC’s list of top 100 books this year and reading the books I haven’t read or don’t remember much about. After finishing up some books I’d set my mind to before deciding to focus on the BBC list, I decided the first book I would tackle would be Little Women by Lousia May Alcott.

Here’s the deal: I read this book as a child with my mom. And I have all these memories of what happens. . . . and was highly confused as I neared the end and they hadn’t happened. Jo hadn’t married the professor. Beth didn’t die. Amy and Laurie haven’t end up together.

Something just wasn’t right. Did all that happen in a follow-up novel like Jo’s Boys or Little Men? Did I not have the full novel?

The answer is that Little Women was released in two parts . . . and even though my copy is a hardbacked copy bought as part of a classics collection and labeled as Little Women, I only have part 1, which ends with Meg’s engagement and happiness all around—which isn’t the Little Women I remembered! I’ll have to search out part 2 or a full copy now, but I’m incredibly happy to know that I’m not going crazy!